University of Guelph Library
Hoax? Scholarly research? Personal opinion? You decide!
How critical an observer are you? Learn how to evaluate information sources by doing the following exercise.
Based on the criteria on this checklist (PDF – 37kb) evaluate the sites in one or all of the groups:
The main questions to keep in mind are:
- Would you use this Web site for a research paper?
- Why or why not?
This exercise is based on an instructional web site created by J. Alexander and M. Tate, Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener University. The original Web site, Evaluating Web Pages is copyrighted by Widener University, 1996-1999. It was created by Esther Grassian and Diane Zwemer. Permission is granted for unlimited non-commercial use of this exercise.